04/11/2012 @ 09:00AM
Publishers Weekly (PW) magazine and Aptara are pleased to announce availability of the 4th Annual eBook Production Survey, designed to document the evolving impact of digital media on traditional content publishing and production.
03/23/2012 @ 12:00AM
10/25/2011 @ 10:30AM
New York, NY – October 25, 2011 – Cheers went up in the Publishers Weekly offices when the number of @PublishersWkly Twitter followers hit 200,000, a new milestone. It was Monday night, October 17, and jubilant staffers watched as, even after the milestone was reached, the number of followers quickly continued to climb. By the end of the week nearly 2,000 more had signed on.
04/15/2011 @ 12:00AM
In Monday’s Retailing section of the magazine, we take a look at the New England independent bookstore franchise Annie’s Book Stop. There's a piece on World Reader moving into Kenya, a piece on summer movie tie-ins, and Calvin Reid looks at the tablet market. There are Q&As with Sophie Littlefield, author of A Bad Day for Scandal, and Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire. There is a boxed review of Kathleen Ossip’s The Cold War, and on the Soapbox page, publisher Rudy Shur says we should focus on finding new readers instead of worrying about formats.
04/08/2011 @ 12:00AM
In Monday’s issue of the magazine, we take a look at international bestsellers; how California indies are looking for opportunities with 39 Borders stores closing in the state; and adult fiction debuts from writers of bestselling YA novels. There is a piece on industry legend Martin Levin’s new book, All I Know About Management I Learned from My Dog, and a profile of William Gurstelle, author of The Practical Pyromaniac. There are features on epic fantasy novels and on science fiction’s popularity among readers in the military, as well as a Why I Write essay by Harry Turtledove. On the Soapbox page, Bill Henderson talks about the negative impacts of technology.
02/15/2011 @ 12:00AM
Michael Robotham’s The Wreckage (June 2011) ties in a bombing in Baghdad, a robbery in London and the kidnapping of an international businessman to a massive bank heist. Noting that a great robbery has the ability to turn “an ordinary criminal into a folk hero,” Robotham mined some of the greatest--and costliest--robberies in history to create a definitive list of the most spectacular robberies ever.
02/15/2011 @ 12:00AM
Mark Billingham’s Bloodline (July 2011) marks the eighth outing for his London detective Tom Thorne. Billingham, who has discussed the fact that Thorne is more than a mere doppelganger for himself--author and detective both live in London, have the same birthday, and more than a few favorite bands--has a love/hate relationship writing about this gumshoe. He talked to us about the joys, and pitfalls, of writing a series character.
02/15/2011 @ 12:00AM
In a writing career that has spanned well over 30 years, 50 novels and numerous awards – including the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Grand Master nod – one of the main constants in Lawrence Block’s life has been Matthew Scudder. Scudder, who first appeared in 1976’s Sins of the Father, is one of Block’s, and the crime genre's, most enduring creations. A former New York City cop who's faced a lifelong battle with alcoholism, Scudder has appeared in 16 novels and, this May, will appear for a 17th time, in A Drop of the Hard Stuff. For the occasion, Block talked with us about why Scudder is still around, on the page and in his mind, after all these years.
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